From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to open a particular info page by command name Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:04:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <465678.94409.qm@web25403.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Reply-To: rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196725321 10270 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2007 23:42:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:42:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 04 00:42:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IzKvQ-00042r-PZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:42:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzKvA-0001AV-C4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:41:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzAyB-0007dP-Mn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:04:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzAy9-0007dC-Ox for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:04:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzAy9-0007d9-NM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:04:17 -0500 Original-Received: from web25403.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.10.137]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IzAy9-0001IP-3D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:04:17 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 95297 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Dec 2007 13:04:15 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.de; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=s5UihbI3epHMrxBiIrbzmTOC5XlSKb8Ud3kD+sYcmSYNuVc8L3KIX0kT1lPXzkWzSFQoUH0DLKcpCjNmC3BH9yD5pWL2Rtq6tuzwNR+yBquQPrLfiHOf5zDvjlHTIOhiupcLRxSVyGgsr1Gqn0QKelKE25tLKJ2RtLjBOwX3XsU=; X-YMail-OSG: eFLHAoIVM1k_O6ByyI.NUnvI9MTKuUjQULL1ON75 Original-Received: from [82.207.169.34] by web25403.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:04:14 CET X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:40:35 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49799 Archived-At: Hi all: In the command-line (outside emacs) I can do "man xxx" to get help about a Unix command, and "info xxx" to get help in the form of info pages. I easily found how to do "man xxx" within emacs and comfortably browse the help pages, I'm using the "woman" module at the moment (it comes with emacs). I even wrote a small shell script to turn emacs into a handy man page viewer: emacs --no-splash --eval "(progn (setq woman-use-own-frame nil) (woman \"$1\"))" & Unfortunately, I couldn't find how to do the same with the info pages. Don't get me wrong: I don't want to manually open the root info page and click around; I want to type the name of a command (say gcc) and get the same page I would get if I typed "info gcc" in the console, but inside the built-in emacs info page viewer. I've searched with Google and browsed the Lisp code of the info module to no avail. Can someone help me? Thanks a lot, Ruben __________________________________ Ihr erstes Fernweh? Wo gibt es den schönsten Strand? www.yahoo.de/clever